As a textbook for students of medical computer science, and a reference work for individual readers needing to understand the role computers can play in the provision of medical services, the book first explains basic concepts, then illustrates them with specific systems and technologies. The ultimate aim of the editors has been to focus on recurrent themes in medical informatics, medical computing applications, and future direction for research, as well as to clarify the definition, and to nurture the effectiveness, of healthcare computing.

Autorentext

Department of Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University Medical Center.

Klappentext

The practice of modern medicine requires sophisticated information technologies with which to manage patient information, plan diagnostic procedures, interpret laboratory results, and conduct research. Designed for a broad audience, this book fills the need for a high quality reference in computers and medicine, first explaining basic concepts, then illustrating them with specific systems and technologies. Medical Informatics provides both a conceptual framework and a practical inspiration for this swiftly emerging scientific discipline. The second edition covers system design and engineering, ethics of health informatics, system evaluation and technology assessment, public health and consumer use of health information, and healthcare financing.

Inhalt

I. RECURRENT THEMES IN MEDICAL INFORMATICS: 1. The Computer Meets Medicine: Emergence of a Discipline; 2. Medical Data: Their Acquisition, Storage, and Use 3. Medical Decision Making: Probabilistic Medical Reasoning; 4. Essential Concepts for Medical Computing; 5. System Design and Engineering; 6. Standards in Medical Informatics; 7. The Ethics and Health Informatics: Users, Standards, and Outcomes; 8. Evaluation and Technology Assessment.- II. MEDICAL COMPUTING APPLICATIONS: 9. Computer-Based Patient-Record Systems; 10. Management of Information in Integrated Delivery Systems; 11. Public Health and Consumer Uses of Health Information: Education, Research, Policy, Prevention and Quality Assurance; 12. Patient-Care Systems; 13. Patient Monitoring Systems; 14. Imaging Systems; 15. Information-Retrieval Systems; 16. Clinical Decision-Support Systems; 17. Computers in Medical Education; 18. Bioinformatics.- III. MEDICAL INFORMATICS IN THE YEARS AHEAD: 19. Health Care and Information Technology: Growing Up Together; 20. The Future of Computer Applications in Health Care.